I'm the type of person that always pushes boundaries so I appreciate boundaries. I have been in the situation that the kid was in more times than I'd like to remember. 25 years later I like to think I have grown up a little

I'm the type of person that always pushes boundaries so I appreciate boundaries. I have been in the situation that the kid was in more times than I'd like to remember. 25 years later I like to think I have grown up a little

Just because you have mellowed out (as expected) doesn't mean that EVERYBODY should be at same stage. Kids are kids._________________“If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him”

You go to school to learn about life. Part of that is dealing with the consequences of you actions. The person in this story has learned a very important lesson: namely if you can't to the time, don't do the crime

What lesson is that? Your local thug, who happens to be the head of some organization, is enforcing some arbitrary non-rule? Frankly, it's the head teacher that needs to learn a lesson. Follow your own goddam rules. He has the power to change them if he doesn't like them (likely will need to pass some sort of committee, so it may not)._________________

wswartzendruber wrote:

Well, every group has its nutjobs, and the Second Amendment crowd is no exception.

I'm the type of person that always pushes boundaries so I appreciate boundaries. I have been in the situation that the kid was in more times than I'd like to remember. 25 years later I like to think I have grown up a little

Just because you have mellowed out (as expected) doesn't mean that EVERYBODY should be at same stage. Kids are kids.

So? Because I am older and more experienced means I can't offer the result of that knowledge?

I'm the type of person that always pushes boundaries so I appreciate boundaries. I have been in the situation that the kid was in more times than I'd like to remember. 25 years later I like to think I have grown up a little

Just because you have mellowed out (as expected) doesn't mean that EVERYBODY should be at same stage. Kids are kids.

So? Because I am older and more experienced means I can't offer the result of that knowledge?

Write a book._________________“If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him”

I'm the type of person that always pushes boundaries so I appreciate boundaries. I have been in the situation that the kid was in more times than I'd like to remember. 25 years later I like to think I have grown up a little

Just because you have mellowed out (as expected) doesn't mean that EVERYBODY should be at same stage. Kids are kids.

So? Because I am older and more experienced means I can't offer the result of that knowledge?

I'm the type of person that always pushes boundaries so I appreciate boundaries. I have been in the situation that the kid was in more times than I'd like to remember. 25 years later I like to think I have grown up a little

Just because you have mellowed out (as expected) doesn't mean that EVERYBODY should be at same stage. Kids are kids.

So? Because I am older and more experienced means I can't offer the result of that knowledge?

Write a book.

My Medium is the Gentoo forums. Take it or leave it

How's that working out for ya? Keep it up then. _________________“If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him”

I'm the type of person that always pushes boundaries so I appreciate boundaries. I have been in the situation that the kid was in more times than I'd like to remember. 25 years later I like to think I have grown up a little

Just because you have mellowed out (as expected) doesn't mean that EVERYBODY should be at same stage. Kids are kids.

So? Because I am older and more experienced means I can't offer the result of that knowledge?

I'm the type of person that always pushes boundaries so I appreciate boundaries. I have been in the situation that the kid was in more times than I'd like to remember. 25 years later I like to think I have grown up a little

Just because you have mellowed out (as expected) doesn't mean that EVERYBODY should be at same stage. Kids are kids.

So? Because I am older and more experienced means I can't offer the result of that knowledge?

Write a book.

My Medium is the Gentoo forums. Take it or leave it

How's that working out for ya? Keep it up then.

Brilliant. So good I was asked to come back

Cool, good to have you back._________________“If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him”

To get the official business out of the way: we have rules against quote pyramids for a reason, take note and comply.

Muso wrote:

In my freshman year of high school (this was in the late 80's), I was pulled into the office for wearing an upside down cross around my neck. I was told that some students found it offensive. I told the VP that I found the cross offensive. So unless they were banned from wearing crosses, I would continue to wear mine upside down.

That was the last I ever heard of the issue.

So you were protesting a symbol of piety by wearing a symbol of piety with more self effacing overtones? Sad, really, especially with loosely specified others taking offense at what was at worst tacky costume jewelry.

So you were protesting a symbol of piety by wearing a symbol of piety with more self effacing overtones? Sad, really, especially with loosely specified others taking offense at what was at worst tacky costume jewelry.

I was a 14 year old who was tired of religion being shoved down my throat and the double standard I kept seeing. Being a 14 year old, I acted like a smart ass about it._________________Always do the opposite of what SJWs say.

Obama played the race card. Hillary played the woman card. America played the Trump card.

To get the official business out of the way: we have rules against quote pyramids for a reason, take note and comply.

Muso wrote:

In my freshman year of high school (this was in the late 80's), I was pulled into the office for wearing an upside down cross around my neck. I was told that some students found it offensive. I told the VP that I found the cross offensive. So unless they were banned from wearing crosses, I would continue to wear mine upside down.

That was the last I ever heard of the issue.

So you were protesting a symbol of piety by wearing a symbol of piety with more self effacing overtones? Sad, really, especially with loosely specified others taking offense at what was at worst tacky costume jewelry.

All this moral overtone just states that you are not mature enough to realize that these are kids. Remember yourself at that age? That's right._________________“If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him”

All this moral overtone just states that you are not mature enough to realize that these are kids. Remember yourself at that age? That's right.

Or, maybe, just maybe, I know myself better than you do. Perhaps, the perspective from within my own mind was correct about how I was having a bit of fun with him while (successfully) trying to find out if he was engaging in researched trolling of bible thumpers (those who pay little attention at best to its contents, but still hide behind it and try to use it to control others) or if he was just trying for a quick bit of sacrilege. It might even be the case that sacrilege does not itself bother me, but that the ignorance of the subject matter, especially by those complaining was, to me, worth lament, if only for rhetorical purposes.

Who knows, maybe you read what you did into that post because your mental image of yourself at that age precludes executing a bit of research for an elegant troll and you somehow think that having the previously unstated irony of ones actions pointed out is necessarily a sign of disapproval, as opposed to a means of fleshing out a story.